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    Is this thread still going? I am 5 pages behind, and suspect I have missed nothing. This tune is on topic:
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    Well, SL Viewer has already set your performance to Low, to prevent freezing and crashing. I am not sure what they have changed for memory management. This really points back to a problem with your hardware. Overheating, failing drives, or failing motherboard. All hardware has a lifetime. Just one single component on a motherboard that is failing, can cause all of your symptoms. Filter capacitors are the most common, but bad solder joints, cracks in the board, a failing connector, micro corrosion, all can create problems. And most software peeps have no idea how to diagnose much less fix these faults. That's why a repair shop will just say, replace your laptop when they can't fix a hardware issue, which would cost more in labor and parts than a new computer. Probably already suggested by someone here - but you need to put your SL and FS caches on a white list so every file written to your disk cache does not have to be checked by the anti--virus. That can cause slowdowns and pauses in certain cases. It's one of those "it can't hurt, even if it makes a small difference in performance" things. 80%(*) of SL users never white list their SL/FS viewer, and they are still here, so... (*) a WA guess of course
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    Ah, well I don't judge a thread by it's title. Maybe LL is short on managers these days and Philip is helping out as a moderator, so it was a call for help. Or maybe not..
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    I missed that, if that was in that thread. I thought it was because of the nipples.
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    You download the FS viewer before you can log in, or even install it on Windows. I thought you said you could log into Firestorm but could not move. In any case, I would uninstall any copy of Firestorm you already have on Windows. Then download it again and install it, but don't log in yet. You need to Start at a quiet region. I will look for one to suggest when I have more time. Ok either of the regions posted below are fine. Start FireStorm and at the bottom box that says Start At, click down arrow key and highlight <Type region name> and enter Voice Echo Canyon, or Tromp in the box. Then Log In and let your inventory load and your avatar rez. Depending on your inventory size, you should be able to move your avatar in 30 secs to 5 mins. Then open preferences and make the changes 1. to 5., say OK and log out again. Log back in at your Home, and see if you can move. If you still have a problem you need to do a clean install of FS, and also check your Win11 installation, as @Nalates Urriah suggested above. One of the changes in preferences will not take effect unless you log out of FS, and then log back in. A relog. I take it you are still doing fine using the SL Viewer?
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    Peeve - A thread closed so fast by a grumpy ****** that @Luna Bliss and @Scylla Rhiadra did not get to participate. It was a photograph of a ****** from 2008, who was also the founder of ****** Lab. Sensitive today, aren't we *******.? If you are confused, it means you missed it. You are not allowed to take breaks here, since some threads only last a few minutes.
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    Who killed Philip? Peeve - no time to correct my reply before the thread is hidden. Thread Lifetime ~ 15 mins. It was the Nevada desert, Black Rock at the Outback Camp, Burning Man Festival 2008.
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    I always had ALM turned off with the 550Ti in any crowded situation. I only turned it on at home for some pics, but usually no ALM made better pics for the portraits I was making. Nothing I was photographing needed materials, and shadows were a joke to me. The 550TI usually ran about 40 C max even when stressed. EVGA cards with fan control can easily run cool. Being air cooled, it depending more on room temperature. When the room temp was 90 F (and 100F outside) the card ran about 12 C hotter than my normal 70 F RT, where it would idle at 35 C and hit 40 C in clubs. It was always the increased VRAM requirement that affected me. Especially since I normally run two instances of FS on the same video card, one account on each monitor. Once 2GB was hit, it start to page, and soon crash. This was when both accounts were in crowded clubs. I could run 4 accounts at home forever with the 550Ti. Most younger "gamers" with the latest hardware underestimate what an old system can do, IF you just turn off the extra features, and restrict memory by compression and texture size. It is beyond their experience to have to make do with the same performance that they had in 2014. But take away their income and savings, and see how they feel.
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    Let me write that down. Who would have thought?
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    You still see the first message if you look. The sender sees your auto response text when they send the message. If they keep sending another text, they see it again. They eventually get the idea you don't want to be disturbed. I don't get sexy IM's anymore, they know I am taken. I usually answer my autoresponse messages when I am free. That's part of running a business.
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    Nope - It was not on your agenda to look for a simple solution, because you wanted to talk about how women are abused by men for 10 pages. Fortunately I was sleeping so I missed it all.
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    If we told you a good story our thread would get removed. That's the best story lately. The untold story. Welcome Back anyway.
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    If you say so, I never heard of them. But there are groups and clubs that discriminate against straight white men too, banning them if they even show up. So what is your point?
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    But had we ignored him, there be would another thread started asking why no one loves me anymore. I could start a thread on why I hate bacon, and someone would comment, and we would be getting articles about the health and mental risks and pleasures of bacon, in SL, before it was over. Oh I would have to add that men love bacon, to keep the thread interesting.
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    I offered a practical solution to the OP. But the women's movement here ignored it and went on for 10 more pages. So I repeat, this thread was stupid.
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    Actually would probably run cooler than today's high end cards. That Firestorm Minimum requirement can do a lot more than "log in and do basic functions" It is just someone's best guess, because they don't have an older optimized system to test. They say a GTX750 Ti is the minimum graphics card. Well I used a GTX550 Ti up to a couple months ago, and never had a performance issue. My use was getting a smooth crash free operation in busy (40 avatar) clubs on overloaded regions. 30 FPS with that mess, and 80 FPS at my home, with 3000 LI rezzed. I always limit my FPS to 40 fps because it makes no difference to my eyes on my 1920x1080 dual monitors. The GTX 550Ti first came out in March 2011, and I bought mine with 2GB VRAM in May 2012. The only reason I replaced it with a more modern NVIDIA card was to get more VRAM. It has a higher FPS, but since I limit that to 40 FPS I see no difference. Well my new card does handle some particles (fog) better, and of course I can run PBS full on with no issues. A Minimum spec should assume a PBR Viewer (no ALM) with NO reflections turned on, and no shadows, and a frame rate of at least 20 fps in a crowded club. Maybe if I used my old 550Ti card with a "2 core 2.7 Mhz GPU" it might be the minimum - but here they are mixing up graphics and GPU generations. In 2012 there were 4 core, 3.9 Mhz GPU's available. They also say nothing about integrated graphics - because no one on the Firestorm team would be caught dead with one. At least LL is setting the SL performance for weak integrated graphics as low as possible with their PBR viewer - turning all shaders off, so the majority of users with weak laptops can still log in. Apparently marketing and retention is giving the viewer designers some feedback.
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    You have enough RAM (integrated graphics) to run SL in low populated regions. I already suggested how you can free up Firestorm using less RAM. Since you gave up on installing FS, you must not have used my settings. First, only install FS in a very low lag region, like one of the FS sandboxes or LL empty regions. Your home location has a dozen stacked multi scene skyboxes you are sharing region resources with. Depending on who moves there and what they rez, you could have Script lag, Physics lag, and Agent lag from all your neighbors. So use a quiet empty region to install FS. A clean FS install is probably needed too, if you last used FS 4 years ago. You didn't say you did that. Finally, after a clean install of the latest FS, at an empty region, go to FS Preferences and set Graphics as follows: 1) Set Your Performance to Low on the slider 2) In Graphics/Hardware Settings, Enable (check) Lossy Texture Compression. 3) In Graphics/Rendering, Enable (check) Restrict Maximum texture resolution to 512 px. 4) In Graphics/Rendering, Limit Framerate to FPS of 40. 5) And relog FS to save these settings. That should help with your underpowered laptop. I have helped many with laptops like yours, and tuning them down to the bare minimum has allowed them to stay in SL without buying a new computer (for now at least.) As far as you giving up on FS because you could not move your avatar, that has nothing to do with your prior viewer. It means FS is still trying to load everything for the first time, and will not enable your AO until the last. It could also mean it crashed before finishing loading - another sign of too busy a region for the initial install. We also don't know the size and organization of your inventory. A large and flat inventory can cause all the problems you are having as well. And finally - the System Info you posted here from the SL Viewer shows they set your Performance to 1 out of 7, or Lowest possible. That tells you they think your laptop must run an the very bottom of graphics features. When you run the default Firestorm, it does not tune your Performance to the absolute bottom. The Beta PBR FS does that, but not the FS Release. So you need to make the settings above before you can get FS working for you. BTW, for general information, I usually run my system at Ultra, and have a mid range gaming system. When I go to a loaded regions, the Belli 5th anniversary is a good example, my VRAM usage slowly moves up to 6000 MB. If I use the settings above, and move all over the 4 regions, my VRAM usage maxes out at 650 MB. So if low memory is your problem, using 650 MB is better than using 6000 MB. Low memory will thrash and crash you eventually, with plenty of stalls just for fun.
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    why?
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    My IM's are open to everyone on all my accounts, male, female, cat, or rat. But I usually have autoresponse checked for non-friends and sometimes friends too, if I don't want to be bothered. That is more effective, and I don't miss IM's I want to answer. You can also add a clever autoresponse message, such as "I am busy having sex with my pet goat right now, but I'll try to get back to you when we are finished." That can sort out a few...
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    This was not my build, but someone's early attempt at a mesh winter landscape scene I bought on MP for a very low price. I'll need to rezz another original copy on the Beta grid to see what happened with it. All I know is the LI dropped to half when I set a lantern shade prim to convex hull from prim, and there were 3 lanterns. I need to confirm the original LI before the LL 15% change too, since I can't do that now on the main grid.
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    As an Alt myself, I take this conversation quite personally. My main duty in life is to post here.
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    That is not what I meant by regulated. That is simply LL controlling the exchange rate, and keeping it stable in their own interest. There are no government regulations requiring LL to maintain any value to the L$, or to maintain a stable exchange rate. This is because the L$ is not a currency, but just a token in a privately owned online game. LL can declare the L$ worth nothing at all if they choose, but that would not be a wise business decision. RL government regulations, as Tilia, PayPal, etc must obey is what I call regulations, often laws passed by the US Congress.
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    My alt gave me this song for you...
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    https://community.secondlife.com/blogs/entry/15325-increased-land-impact-allowance-is-here/ It is all explained in their blog post. Summary - PBR extra lights and mirrors will use extra LI, so we are cutting the weight for LI mesh downloads. Some of the speculation here seems to not agree with the LL notice technical information.
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    unintended consequences of PBR lighting.
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